$5 Steakhouse Burgers All Week at Primehouse

David Burke’s Primehouse is jumping into Oktoberfest festivities with $5 “burkers” during lunchtime through Thursday of this week. Guests can chow down on the 40-day dry aged burgers nestled in a potato bun and tailored with Swiss or cheddar cheese ($1), bacon or a fried egg for $2, or for $3 smother it in bacon … Continued

Cooking Up A Cure…Great Food For A Great Cause

  If you’re free on Monday, I’m hoping you can make time to attend the 3rd Annual “Cooking Up a Cure” event taking place at Salvage One (1840 W Hubbard St.).  Hosted by Cleetus Friedman, owner of City Provisions, and MC’d by yours truly, this all-star dining event will bring together Chicago’s top chefs to support the … Continued

Half of “Too Hot Tamales” Talks About Getting Her Start in Chicago

  [audio:https://stevedolinsky.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Mary-Sue-Milliken-3.mp3|titles=Mary Sue Milliken]   Before there was DeLaurentis and “Iron Chef” Cora, there were the Too Hot Tamales, a.k.a. Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken. The two teamed up to open Border Grills in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Las Vegas (at the Mandalay), along with a successful food truck operation. Milliken got her … Continued

Top 5 Chicago Kid-Friendly Places To Dine

  I’ve always told parents of young children to head to Chinatown, because nearly every restaurant welcomes children and most offer smaller portions of easy-to-digest dishes (except for Lao Szechuan, which might be for more advanced tweens). My daughter was a regular at Phoenix when she was six weeks old, and her favorite food to … Continued

How to Make A Fig & Gorgonzola Tart

  We all know by now that President Obama is quite the foodie. He took his wife to Spiaggia for their anniversary; he dined with Oprah at Graham Elliot for his 50th birthday, and he loves the food at Topolobampo so much, he asked Rick Bayless to cook a State Dinner when the Mexican president was … Continued

Scones From A Taste of Heaven

  As much as I love the cookies, cakes and muffins from A Taste of Heaven in Andersonville, it’s the scones I would drive out of my way for (as well as the artisanal pizzas across the street at Great Lake, but I digress). The scones here are unlike their dry, crumbly brethren, and I’m … Continued

Haute Dogs in Hawaii, From A Chicago Visionary

  Henry Adaniya has seen it all in fine-dining. From his days at the legendary Ambria in Chicago, to his launch of Trio in Evanston, he’s worked with some of the country’s best chefs. At Trio alone, he found and nurtured chefs like Gale Gand, Rick Tramonto (the other two prongs of the original Trio); … Continued

Congrats To Our Winner…

Congratulations to Jack O’Connor, winner of the $25 gift card to GT Fish & Oyster. Loved your detailed description of what you would do with $500 to spend on food and drink, based on my Top 5 post from Thursday:   “I’d make a Sunday of it with my wife: Starting early at the Publican … Continued

Cinnamon Rolls, Swedish Style

  A lot of people – including me – will be fasting today on Yom Kippur. It’s a day of reflection (man, I’m getting old) and repentence (Madeline, sorry I took the last shui mai at Triple Crown last month when you weren’t looking). But I realize only about 3% of the U.S. is fasting … Continued

Chicago is About To Get Cheesy

One of the things I actually abhor is anything called National ________ Month/Day. We all know these special occasions simply serve to promote a food product (peaches, ice cream, nuts, etc.) that is in need of a sales boost. Kind of like a Groupon, but sponsored by a large consortium of producers rather than just … Continued